Original Clavichord c.1620- Mirrey Collection. Antonio de Cabezón 

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Ikr

The strings aren't though

They just don't make 'em like they used to!!😅❤

even some of the keys. Probably some hardware inside too. Only the box is original. @@abdul-hadidadkhah1459

SMALIN

that's depressing...

@@jerrytheracecardriver1100 Not depressing at all. Glorious that it survived to give us and generations to come,pleasure. Depressing is the thought of this clavichord getting destroyed.

Hi :)

I used to tune and maintain them all when I worked there. I think this was perhaps biggest sequence of working clavichords in any public museum, but it has all been changed now.

From the level of the noise on the recording, I think the volume was turned up a lot here so we could hear it better. In the room I'd imagine it was very quiet. Well, that, or there's a small plane taking off in the next room ;)

*sarcasm intensifies*

You can't change the temperament on a fretted clavichord. It's in 1/4 meantone.

ahmed mohammed the strings are yellow brass

There were (and still are) other kinds of clavichords, from later periods, the 18th c., like the bigger, louder, Saxon clavichord. Search them and you will find pics.

Goldberg Variations are meant for the Harpsichord, not the Clavichord.

It is all one piece called "Para quien crié yo cabellos" by Antonio de Cabezón (1510 - 1566)

probably a fountain.

yanhky Its probably to damp the strings to get a crisper sound

If you didn't have the red cloth, both sides of the string would sound at the same time.

Not really. Only in 20th-21st century recordings are instruments heard in isolation. We've lost the beauty and truth of live music.

The 'noise' contains a large part of the charm and magic of this music

@@Jalapablo pretty sure they were referring to the crackling in the recording. you can hear it with headphones, sounds like it's raining in the room.

Mary V If I understand correctly, there are a few differences between harpsichord and clavichord. The clavichord is fretted, meaning that several keys hit the same string in different places to produce the notes one step up or down from the adjacent key, this means also that some keys cannot be pressed at the same time. With a harpsichord each key has it's own set of strings. On a harpsichord, the strings are plucked rather than hit, whereas on the clavichord the strings are hit directly by brass heads. Clavichords were much more portable and much lighter than the harpsichords as well.

Clavichord are like a MacBook Pro whereas a Harpsichord is like an iMac

+Mary V Clavichord strikes the strings with a hammer (like in piano), while harpsichord plucks the strings with a plectrum, producing a sharper sound.

+Michael Jimenez What a remarkably useless and unhelpful explanation!

It's been played with bare hands for 400 years with little apparent harm.